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Re: Old Adaptec in 2.0.35
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Aug 31 01:58:39 1998
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:18:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "McGee, Chris" <CMMcGee@Pella.com>
cc: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <F104813C790ED11183280800092D82560C4596@mail_remote.pella.com>
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, McGee, Chris wrote:
> The thing has (brace yourself) an EISA Adaptec 1740 (which is about
> 2 feet long, literally), with a couple old SCSI disks plugged into it. It's
> running 2.0.35/glibc2.
> It works fine for the most part, unless you attempt to move data
> between the disks. Copying a meg of two of data is fine, but if you tell it
> to move, for example, a directory full of mp3s, the machine dies every
> single time. Pushing any large amount of data across the SCSI bus kills the
> box in about 10-15 seconds. This does not occur pushing or pulling data
> across the LAN (approximately 800k/sec transfer rate there).
>
> This box ran SCO unix for almost a decade without ever having such a
> problem. (SCO 3.2/386, hehe)
>
> When it dies, the console scrolls kernel messages about trying to
> reset the SCSI bus. You cannot get to a shell, and networking dies. The
Is it possible you have a cabling issue or a drive that's going bad?
I used to run an EISA P90 news server with a 1740...but this was way back
with 1.2.x kernels.
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